The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-03-19
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VotaE EOpus
People are apt 10 disdain what they
cannot do.
A gloomy Christian is as much a.
self-contradiction as a selfish one.
Buy what thou hast no use Of, and
ere long thou shall sell thy necessarics.
Give what you have. To some one
1t may be better than you dare to think.
0ver-sensitiveness is selfishness; self
is so near the surface that it is easily
hurt.
Carrying on business successfully is
not half so important as building good
manhood.
Nature is frank, and will allow no
man to sbuse himself without giving
him hint Of it.
Every man onght TO do four times
as much good unconsciously as he does
on purpose.
al know whom / have believed"
There Is realm then in which faith
and fact are one.
God cannot guide those souls who
never trusted him enough to believe
that he is doing it.
No ambition, however noble it may
seem IN itself, is worthy of true man
if ii interfes with his present duty.
The first condition of letting light
shine is having light. To be lumi-
nous is the first duty of the Christian.
1t requires real ability TO recognize
the signs Of ability; and only he who
has touch of nobleness can perceive
the presence of the noble.
Pity the poor man with his millions,
who has made money at the price of
his character, and has built up for
tune on the ruins of his manhood.
This life is school, with its long
and varied curriculum, in which men
and women are being trained and dis
ciplined for another life beyond this
earthly sphere.
1t is not fair to judge a profession
merely by the conduct of individual
members of that profession; since
those individual members may not
represent, but grossly lnisreprescnt,
that profession.
Christ and his cross are not sepa-
rabIe in this life, but they part at
heavens door, for there is no room for
crosses in heaven. Sorrow and the
saints are not married together; but
were it so heaven will make divorce.
Whether at the end of sixty or sew
enty years of hard toll man rests with
a comfortable fortune or comes TO the
close with nothing, is really very
small matter, in comparison with what
the man himself is at the end of his
career.
The wheat fields of the summer did
not approach the reapers asking to be
gathered, but the reapers went ont and
cut the harvest where it stood. The
world will not come to the church to
be saved; the church must 90 to it..
"Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature"
1t is well often, especially when in
clined to sadness of spirit, to draw
from the memory subjects, scenes,
sights and persons, lovely, pure, bright,
and cheerful, and thank the Great
Gryer of every real pleasure, for the
wondrous power to bring the beauties
and comforts of the past to our minds
in all freshness and JOY of their past
actual existence.
What a contrast has this court
week been to those Of the past! No
bar rooms, no drunknness, no fighting.
Everything moves along as quietly and
as orderly as at church gathering.
With liquor abolished, everybody feels
better-even the old topers themselves,
who always thought it dnty to get
drunk and fight wheA they came to
town. -- Black Ma@ptadn IN. C.l
Pioneer.
Mr.. Editor--I have no quarrel with
some Of the results of the late war.
They are simply invaluable. lam ready
TO admit that many Southern and
Northern soldiers alike were impelled
by noble motives. But there stands
out between causes and results one
big bloody fact, it takes only three
letters to spell it, but every letter is
red to its core with brothers. blood
shed by brother.
The crusadeagainst gambling, liquor
selling, and other abuses at agricul-
tural fairs is reaching the few States
and Territories that have not already
been reformed. Efforts are beng made
in such sections to securea law author,
izing the State Treasurer to pay the
State bounty to only those agricultural
societies whose officials send in a sworn
statement-that their fairs have been
| free fromthese abnses-C Chicago Times
Pliny Z. Chase, of HayeEford Col.
legc, who passed away from this life
q few days ago, had, probably, larger
accumulation Of varied and extensive
learning than any other member Of the
Society of Friends in America. lie
was eminent in physics and astron-
omy, 10 linguistic knowledge, and 10
philosophy. But his much most valued
possession was bis humble Christian
faith. OF this faith he made good
confession, with voice, pen and life.
His browning work was that Of his
professorship for fourteen years at
Hayerford College, whore he held the
appointment Of acting president at the
time Of lls decease. It was well said
at the time Of his funeral that snch
men are among the very best gifts of
Ged to the church and to the world.
- Friends Re0iew.
Alcohol does not destroy is victims,
in most cases, suddenly, as ii the dead
sleepsof profound intoxicationor il the
wild naniacal rawlings Of delirnm trem-